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Operating Systems Linux Are /home partitions worth it? Post 302863783 by maerlyngb on Tuesday 15th of October 2013 06:10:10 AM
Old 10-15-2013
Wrench Are /home partitions worth it?

I'm new to the Linux world and whilst I've been learning the ropes, I've read some conflicting opinions regarding the creation of separate partitions for /home and other directories during OS install.

Some say that having these directories in separate partitions allows you to reinstall without losing your data. Others say that it adds pointless complexity to the system and that some unwanted files from old installations linger after new installs.

What do you people think about this?

If storing certain directories on separate partitions is a good idea, why is this the case? Would it be better to use completely different drives?

Is this different from distro to distro?

Thanks in advance.
 

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virt-list-partitions(1) 				      Virtualization Support					   virt-list-partitions(1)

NAME
virt-list-partitions - List partitions in a virtual machine or disk image SYNOPSIS
virt-list-partitions [--options] domname virt-list-partitions [--options] disk.img [disk.img ...] OBSOLETE
This tool is obsolete. Use virt-filesystems(1) as a more flexible replacement. DESCRIPTION
"virt-list-partitions" is a command line tool to list the partitions that are contained in a virtual machine or disk image. It is mainly useful as a first step to using virt-resize(1). "virt-list-partitions" is just a simple wrapper around libguestfs(3) functionality. For more complex cases you should look at the guestfish(1) tool. OPTIONS
--help Display brief help. --version Display version number and exit. -c URI --connect URI If using libvirt, connect to the given URI. If omitted, then we connect to the default libvirt hypervisor. If you specify guest block devices directly, then libvirt is not used at all. --format raw Specify the format of disk images given on the command line. If this is omitted then the format is autodetected from the content of the disk image. If disk images are requested from libvirt, then this program asks libvirt for this information. In this case, the value of the format parameter is ignored. If working with untrusted raw-format guest disk images, you should ensure the format is always specified. -h --human-readable Show sizes in human-readable form (eg. "1G"). -l --long With this option, "virt-list-partitions" displays the type and size of each partition too (where "type" means "ext3", "pv" etc.) -t --total Display the total size of each block device (as a separate row or rows). SHELL QUOTING
Libvirt guest names can contain arbitrary characters, some of which have meaning to the shell such as "#" and space. You may need to quote or escape these characters on the command line. See the shell manual page sh(1) for details. SEE ALSO
guestfs(3), guestfish(1), virt-filesystems(1), virt-list-filesystems(1), virt-resize(1), Sys::Guestfs(3), Sys::Guestfs::Lib(3), Sys::Virt(3), <http://libguestfs.org/>. AUTHOR
Richard W.M. Jones <http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Red Hat Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. libguestfs-1.18.1 2013-12-07 virt-list-partitions(1)
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